Fact Checking Tesla’s “Impact Report”

When I asked Tesla what its Supercharger energy sourcing policy is, after watching those generators spew smoke into the air, here’s what a company spokesperson said:

The biggest environmental claim Tesla makes in the report is that its cars have “saved” over four million tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere. That stands in fairly sharp contrast with Tesla’s implicit claim, both in its impact report and on its website, that its vehicles are powered exclusively by zero-emission power. Tesla’s energy business makes for another opportunity for green credential-polishing that other car companies would kill for but the report has to make do with brief references to just three solar and storage installations, in Australia, Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

Source: www.thedrive.com